Although the war against the insect race lasted only three days, China alone suffered a four percent drop in population. That was even with Blue White Society holding back the vast majority of the main forces.
The fifth national census in 2000 publicly reported a population increase of just over one percent. It was nothing more than a figure no one could disprove.
In 1999, the largest memory-cleaning operation in history had undoubtedly been carried out.
On December 28 of that year, almost everyone born before then throughout the world acquired three false days of memories.
In other words...
"When I was four, my memories were altered too?" Mo Qiong tilted his head.
Master Gou nodded. "If you were four, you wouldn't have known much anyway. Sealing it was enough. Oh, right. Now that you've awakened your Mental Power, you should remember fragments of what happened when you were four."
"Maybe your old man was one of the civilian heroes back then."
Mo Qiong froze. That had practically been an extinction war. Although the entire world had fallen into chaos and many crazed civilians had run amok, countless civilian heroes had also emerged.
The insect race had been an enemy they could never possibly defeat, yet they had still taken up arms and resisted as best they could.
After all, they had had no other choice.
After the war, those people returned to their former lives, completely unaware that they had once faced a terrifying swarm of insects.
Although that war had brought no personal glory and no one had received any rewards—not even Blue White Society—the peace and prosperity of the twenty-first century that followed was the most precious reward of all.
Of course, those who had performed exceptionally well would not simply be left buried in obscurity. They